Rupert Everett Quotes - Page 2

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• I'm a gay man who came from the last years of illegality. That focused my whole character. I think it focused everyone's character in a way. You saw yourself as outside of the main structure.

  Rupert Everett

  Character, Gay, Men

  "Rupert Everett: 'If I'd been straight? I'd be doing what Hugh Grant and Colin Firth do, I suppose" by Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. July 20, 2009.

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• Honestly, I would not advise any actor necessarily, if he was really thinking of his career, to come out.

  Rupert Everett

  Thinking, Careers, Actors

  Interview with Carole Cadwalladr, www.theguardian.com. November 28, 2009.

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• If you're gay or religious you're always hearing this word tolerance. It's a pathetic word. It's actually just a politically correct word for the term intolerance.

  Rupert Everett

  Religious, Gay, Tolerance

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• Why are men talking about what clothes they're wearing? It's so unmanly, I think. It's like Versailles before the Revolution, without the style.

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  Men, Thinking, Talking

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• There's still a great deal of bias about homosexuality.

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  Homosexuality, Bias, Deals

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• The thing about lying is, it is quite exhausting - you have to remember a lot.

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  Lying, Remember, Exhausting

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• Starbucks is spreading like a cancer.

  Rupert Everett

  Cancer, Starbucks

  "Actor Everett labels Starbucks a 'cancer'". www.dailymail.co.uk. August 18, 2006.

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• My idea of a holiday was following my family up the hill with my pekinese, who would skip over the heather in front of me.

  Rupert Everett

  Holiday, Ideas, Heathers

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• In Burton's day they [soldiers] were itching to get into the fray. Now it is the opposite. They are always whining about the dangers of being killed. Oh my God, they are such wimps now! The whole point of being in the Army is wanting to get killed, wanting to test yourself to the limits. Now you have to fly 15,000ft above the war zone to avoid getting hit. I don't think there is any point in having wars if that's how you're going to behave. It's pathetic. All this whining!

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  War, Army, Thinking

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• Maybe there won't be marriage, maybe there won't be sex, but by God there'll be dancing!

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  Sex, Dancing

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• Listen, in England people are already writing their memoirs at the age of 23.

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  Writing, People, Age

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• I dont want to just play gay characters, ... I think it would get boring to play the same thing again and again and again.

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  Character, Gay, Thinking

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• I've never been any good with authority.

  Rupert Everett

  Authority

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• You're not allowed to be an eccentric in the world, you have to fit it.

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  World, Eccentric, Fit

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• There are lots of women and lots of men in the business that the powers that be decide are the right people and they'll stand with them for quite a long time.

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  Men, Long, People

  "Rupert Everett Calls Hollywood Conservative And Homophobic, Calls Out Jennifer Aniston", www.huffingtonpost.com. December 29, 2010.

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• If I did have the impulse to be a parent, I would adopt - or foster.

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  Parent, Impulse, Ifs

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• I find there aren't that many options as an actor.

  Rupert Everett

  Actors

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• Actors make bad lovers. Their most important kiss is for the camera. Not in a superficial way, in a really deep way. They can only give everything if they know someone is going to shout cut!

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  Cutting, Kissing, Giving

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• I don't think I've ever tried to change anyone. I don't have the energy.

  Rupert Everett

  Thinking, Energy

  "Rupert Everett: 'If I'd been straight? I'd be doing what Hugh Grant and Colin Firth do, I suppose'". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. July 20, 2009.

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• It's amazing the clarity that comes with psychotic jealousy.

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  Jealousy, Crazy, Psychosis

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• I think it's fun playing a part that lots of other people have played, in a way.

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  Fun, Thinking, People

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• Being in Hollywood is like being in the Christian right these days.

  Rupert Everett

  Christian, Hollywood, These Days

  "I wouldn't advise any actor thinking of his career to come out". Interview with Carole Cadwalladr, www.theguardian.com. November 28, 2009.

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• A lot of straight actors are actively searching for gay roles because it is something different to do.

  Rupert Everett

  Gay, Different, Roles

  "Hollywood studios 'won't cast gay actors in gay roles'" by Ben Child, www.theguardian.com. January 4, 2011.

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• The opulence of Wilde is a bit too florid for Sherlock, who is a much darker character, ... fascinated by the human condition, but also overwhelmed by it.

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  Character, Opulence, Overwhelmed

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• I think marriage is ghastly.

  Rupert Everett

  Thinking, Ghastly

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